Word: trimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...waiting on the right for Nixon to stumble, and meanwhile is making the most of his assertive noncandidacy. He will allow his name to appear on some primary ballots (though not in New Hampshire), perhaps benefit from write-ins elsewhere, and do some traveling to keep in trim. Next week he plans to speak at party fund-raising events in Tulsa, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and St. Louis, make an address in New York and visit Washington. Nixon returns from his holiday this week to receive a Boy Scout award in New York and appear at a Richmond Chamber of Commerce meeting...
...smouldering heart, the seamless brow" of the youthful Day-Lewis began a slow, often painful search for order-a quest that some critics fear may have put his "less Dionysiac" verse at the Establishment's doorstep. Yet the best of his lyrical and narrative poems display a trim, controlled power...
...Trim and persuasive as ever, former TV Huckstress Betty Furness, 51, now Special Assistant on Consumer Affairs, told how things looked from the other side of the fence in a speech to the American Marketing Association. "It may be revolutionary to suggest that the manufacturer or the marketer give the consumer the basic facts about the design-life of a product," said Betty, "but I believe it's his due. Why shouldn't the housewife know there are 'x' number of hours of service in her washing machine, or that the life expectancy of a toaster...
...encomium from Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell was directed at the man who is running the air war in Viet Nam: General William Wallace Momyer, 51. As commander of the Seventh Air Force and the "coordinating authority" for all air strikes by any service, the trim, soft-spoken Momyer (pronounced Moe-meyer) is the officer responsible not only for rolling the thunder over North Viet Nam but for directing all air operations in South Viet Nam in his role as deputy commander of MACV in Saigon. An Oklahoman who was a World War II fighter...
Means Committee. After much wrangling, the White House promised to trim $2.6 billion from what would have been spent in the current fiscal year, and Congress excised another $1.8 billion. It is possible that some tax increase will be voted next year. - Civil rights proposals ran aground for the second straight year. The Administration's omnibus measure proposed open housing, a ban on jury discrimination and protection for civil rights workers...